Chris Sale, 3 homers pace Braves’ victory, sweep of Diamondbacks
The Atlanta Braves hit three home runs and lefthander Chris Sale won his Atlanta home debut Sunday as the Braves beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 and swept the threegame series.
Matt Olson, Michael Harris II and Austin Riley each went deep to spark the balanced offense and help the Braves secure their first three-game sweep of Arizona since July 29-31, 2022.
Sale (1-0) pitched 5 1⁄3 innings and allowed two runs on four hits and six strikeouts. He retired the first 10 batters he faced until Corbin Carroll looped a single to left with one out in the fourth.
Arizona starter Ryne Nelson (0-2) pitched five innings and allowed three runs on five hits and seven strikeouts. Nelson allowed two of the home runs.
Athletics 7, Tigers 1: Zack Gelof had four hits, including a three-run homer and an RBI triple, as visiting Oakland downedDetroit.
Gelof scored three times, while Abraham
Toro added two hits, two runs and an RBI as the A’s won the last two games of the three-game series.
Oakland starter Joe Boyle (1-1) allowed two hits and walked three while striking out six in five innings. Boyle has notched two of his three career victories against the
Tigers.
Riley Greene hit his third homer and reached base three times for the Tigers, who were shutout on Saturday. Detroit starter Jack Flaherty (0-1) gave up six runs and nine hits with five strikeouts in six innings.
Flaherty, signed as a free agent, gave up one run in six innings to the Chicago White Sox in his Tigers debut March 31. He allowed two runs in his first eight pitches on Sunday.
Pirates 3, Orioles 2: Host Pittsburgh plated a pair of runs thanks to an error on the final play of the game to come away with a victory over Baltimore.
With Baltimore up 2-1,
Ke’Bryan Hayes and Jack Suwinski opened the bottom of the ninth with singles, putting runners at the corners with no outs. Connor Joe then walked to load the bases.
Rowdy Tellez proceeded to ground into a forceout, with the Orioles getting the first out of the inning at the plate.
Edward Olivares then sent a ball up the middle, and shortstop Gunnar Henderson made a sliding stop and tagged second for the second out of the frame before firing to a first in an attempt to record a gameending double play.
However, Henderson’s throw was wide right and went out of play, allowing the winning run to trot home.
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New York Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto Central
Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Minnesota Chicago West
Texas
Los Angeles Seattle Oakland Houston
East
Atlanta Philadelphia New York Washington Miami Central
Pittsburgh Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis West
W
8 6 5 4 4 W
7 6 6 3 1 W
6 5 4 3 2
W
6 4 3 3 1 W
8 6 5 5 5 W
— 11⁄2 21⁄2 31⁄2 11⁄2 4 2 GB WCGB
— —
— — 1 — 11⁄2 — 3 11⁄2 6 41⁄2 GB WCGB
— — 2 3 31⁄2
GB WCGB
— — 21⁄2 11⁄2 31⁄2 21⁄2 31⁄2 21⁄2 6 5 GB WCGB
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1
2
21⁄2
3 1 GB WCGB
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Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado
MONDAY AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chi. White Sox at Cleveland (McKenzie 0-1), 5:10 Seattle (Castillo 0-2) at Toronto (Berrios 1-0), 7:07
Houston (Valdez 0-0) at Texas (Heaney 0-1), 8:05
Tampa Bay (Eflin 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Anderson 1-0), 9:38
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee (Ashby 0-0) at Cincinnati (Ashcraft 0-1), 6:40
N.Y. Mets (Teheran 0-0) at Atlanta (Morton 1-0), 7:20
Philadelphia (Turnbull 1-0) at St. Louis (Mikolas 1-1), 7:45
Arizona (Gallen 2-0) at Colorado (Freeland 0-2), 8:40 Chi. Cubs (Assad 1-0) at San Diego (Darvish 0-1), 9:40 Washington (Williams 1-0) at S.F. (Snell 0-0), 9:45
INTERLEAGUE
Miami (Luzardo 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Cortes Jr. 0-1), 6:05
Detroit (Olson 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Keller 0-1), 6:40
L.A. Dodgers (Paxton 1-0) at Minnesota (Ober 0-1), 7:40
8 5 4 4 2
L
2 3 4 5 6 L
2 3 4 4 8 L
2 3 6 7 7
L
2 5 6 6 9 L
2 2 3 4 5 L
3 7 6 6 7
Pct
.800 .667 .556 .444 .400
Pct
.778 .667 .600 .429 .111
Pct
.750 .625 .400 .300 .222
Pct
.750 .444 .333 .333 .100
Pct
.800 .750 .625 .556 .500
Pct
.727 .417 .400 .400 .222
SUNDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
N.Y. Yankees 8, Toronto 3 Oakland 7, Detroit 1
Kansas City 5, Chi. White Sox 3 Boston at L.A .Angels
GB WCGB
— 1 3 4 41⁄2
— 31⁄2 31⁄2 31⁄2 5
— 11⁄2 11⁄2 11⁄2 31⁄2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Miami 10, St. Louis 3
Washington 3, Philadelphia 2 Atlanta 5, Arizona 2
N.Y. Mets 3, Cincinnati 1
San Francisco 3, San Diego 2 L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs INTERLEAGUE
Pittsburgh 3, Baltimore 2 Milwaukee 12, Seattle 4 Tampa Bay at Colorado
SATURDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Oakland 4, Detroit 0
Cleveland 3, Minnesota 1
N.Y. Yankees 9, Toronto 8
Texas 7, Houston 2
Kansas City 3, Chi. White Sox 0 L.A. Angels 2, Boston 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 3, Miami 1
Philadelphia 5, Washington 2 L.A. Dodgers 4, Chi. Cubs 1 Cincinnati 9, N.Y. Mets 6 Atlanta 9, Arizona 8
San Diego 4, San Francisco 0
INTERLEAGUE
Pittsburgh 5, Baltimore 4 (11) Seattle 5, Milwaukee 3
Tampa Bay 8, Colorado 6
Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Arraez 2b 5 3 4 0 0 0 .268 Bell 1b 4 1 0 2 1 1 .231 Rivera 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 Burger 3b 4 0 1 2 0 2 .308 Chisholm Jr. cf 3 1 1 3 1 1 .206 Brujan lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Sanchez rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .190 Ti.Anderson ss 5 1 2 0 0 1 .282 B.De La Cruz dh 5 1 3 0 0 1 .273 Gordon cf 5 2 2 3 0 1 .200 Bethancourt c 4 1 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 40 10 13 10 2 8
St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Donovan 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .312 Goldschmidt 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .200 Pages 1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Arenado 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .268 Siani lf 1 1 1 0 0 0 .143 Herrera c 4 0 0 0 0 1 .300 Gorman 2b 4 2 2 3 0 2 .222 J.Walker rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .194 Burleson dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .172 M.Winn ss 2 0 0 0 1 1 .308 Scott II cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .083
Totals 32 3 5 3 2 9
Miami 610 000 120 — 10 13 0 St. Louis 000 010 002 — 3 5 2
E—Donovan (1), M.Winn (1).LOB—Miami 7, St. Louis 4.2B—Burger (2), J.Walker (3).3B—Arraez (1), Siani (1).HR—Chisholm Jr. (2), off Gibson, Gordon (2), off Gibson, Gorman 2 (2), off Meyer , Andriese.RBIs— Bell 2 (6), Burger 2 (12), Chisholm Jr. 3 (8), Gordon 3 (6), Gorman 3 (7).SF— Burger. Runners left in scoring position— Miami 3 (Ti.Anderson 2, Brujan); St. Louis 1 (Scott II).
Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Meyer W, 1-0 6 3 1 1 1 3 83 2.45 Nardi 1 0 0 0 0 2 12 16.62 G.Soriano 1 0 0 0 1 2 21 4.15 Andriese 1 2 2 2 0 2 17 18.00
St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gibson L, 1-1 6 7 7 7 1 5 94 6.23 Fernandez 11⁄3 4 3 2 1 1 41 7.71 J.King 12⁄3 2 0 0 0 2 26 3.86
Inherited runners-scored—J.King 2-2.HBP—by Fernandez (J.Sanchez).
T—2:27.A—39, 519 (46, 861).